Executive Directors
Neil Heywood, Managing Director
Prior to Matrix, Neil was co-founder and CEO of Quadstone from 1995 to 2001. Quadstone, bought by Portrait Software, develops data analysis software for the banking, and other, sectors. Quadstone won numerous awards for its software and was named best "Small Start-up" of the year at the Financial Times/BVCA awards in 1999. Prior to Quadstone Neil was head of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre at the University of Edinburgh. Neil has a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh. Neil serves as a non-executive Director of Craneware plc (CRW.L) and chairman of
Codeplay Software Limited.
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Ian Young, Technical Director
Prior to Matrix, Ian developed software for Quadstone's customer modelling system. In 1987 Ian co-founded 3L, a compiler company specialising in embedded systems, and was Technical Director when the company was sold to Spectrum Signal Processing in 1997. Ian graduated summa cum laude with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh.